The Stephen Leacock Award for Humour is an annual award presented to the best work of humourous literature written in English by a Canadian. It is named for Stephen Leacock a famour Canadian humour writer.

  • 2003: Dan Needles, With Axe and Flask - A History of Persephone Township From Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present
  • 2002: Will Ferguson, Generica
  • 2001: Stuart McLean, Vinyl Cafe Unplugged
  • 2000: Arthur Black, Black Tie and Tales
  • 1999: Stuart McLean, Home from the Vinyl Cafe
  • 1998: Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version
  • 1997: Arthur Black, Black in the Saddle Again
  • 1996: Marsha Boulton, Letters from the Country
  • 1995: Josh Freed, Fear of Frying and other Fax of Life
  • 1994: Bill Richardson, Bachelor Brother's Bed and Breakfast
  • 1993: Joseph Levesque, Waiting for Aquarius
  • 1992: Roch Carrier, Prayers of a Very Wise Child
  • 1991: Howard White, Waiting in the Rain
  • 1990: W.O. Mitchell, According to Jake and the Kid
  • 1989: John Kertes, Winter Tulips
  • 1988: Paul Quarrington, King Leary
  • 1987: W.P. Kinsella, The Fencepost Chronicles
  • 1986: Joey Slinger, No Axe too Small to Grind
  • 1985: Ted Allan, Love is a Long Shot
  • 1984 Gary Lautens, No Sex Please...We're Married
  • 1983 Morley Torgov, The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
  • 1982 Mervyn J. Huston, Gophers Don't Pay Taxes Tree
  • 1981 Gary Lautens, Take My Family...Please! John
  • 1980 Donald Jack, Me Brandy, You Cissie
  • 1979 Sondra Gotlieb, True Confessions
  • 1978 Ernest Buckler, Whirligig
  • 1977 Ray Guy, That Far Greater Bay
  • 1976 Harry J. Boyle, The Luck of the Irish
  • 1975 Morley Torgov, A Good Place to Come From
  • 1974 Donald Jack, That's Me in the Middle
  • 1973 Donald Bell, Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory
  • 1972 Max Braithwaite, The Night They Stole the Mounties' Car
  • 1971 Robert Thomas, Allen Wives, Children & Other Wild Life
  • 1970 Farley Mowat, The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
  • 1969 Stuart Trueman, You're Only as Old as You Act
  • 1968 Max Ferguson, And Now...Here's Max
  • 1967 Richard J. Needham, Needham's Inferno
  • 1966 George Bain, Nursery Rhymes to be Read Aloud by Young Parents with Old Children
  • 1965 Gregory Clark, War Stories
  • 1964 Harry J. Boyle, Homebrew and Patches Clarke Irwin
  • 1963 Donald Jack, Three Cheers for Me
  • 1962 W. O. Mitchell, Jake and the Kid
  • 1961 Norman Ward, Mice in the Beer
  • 1960 Pierre Berton, Just Add Water and Stir
  • 1959 -- No Award Given --
  • 1958 Eric Nicol, Girdle Me A Globe
  • 1957 Robert Thomas Allen The Grass Is Never Greener
  • 1956 Eric Nicol, Shall We Join The Ladies?
  • 1955 Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice
  • 1954 Joan Walker, Pardon My Parka
  • 1953 Lawrence Earl, The Battle Of Baltinglass
  • 1952 Jan Hilliard, The Salt Box
  • 1951 Eric Nicol, The Roving I
  • 1950 Earle Binney, Turvey
  • 1949 Angeline Hango, Truthfully Yours
  • 1948 Paul Hiebert, Sarah Binks
  • 1947 Harry L. Symons, Ojibway Melody